BILL ANNOUNCES: Straydog Radio Show covering the events of Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Go ahead Juana, what happened on Wednesday?

JUANA: Well, I was going to say that I hadn’t worked for a few days, but I went to Morton Clinic to get Charlie and I brought him to Lindale on Tuesday. On Wednesday, I came directly to the shelter. I was reunited with my doggies. They were happy to see me. And I was really happy to see them and know that God hadn’t taken me yet. Thank you, God!

I got a lot of pictures. It was a good day with a full crew. It was 75 degrees. We got a lot of pictures of our crew. Wayne was the walker in the Pat Arnold Park and Jacob was the walker in the Shirley Beemer Park. Tyler was focusing on our dogs’ shelters. I think he has it down. He just replaces whatever boards are bad and then he paints them and they look brand new. We try to get everything out, before we put the new boards on. I walked around and greeted our doggies and took pictures here and there. Lacie was off that day and she came to work with me, so I didn’t have to work too much or bend down too much. I had a mini-stroke.

Stephanie raking a kennel. Ranger is there to make sure she does a good job.

Wayne taking Blondie and Toby to the Pat Arnold Park. Blondie has her ball and is ready to play.

Ronnie fills up a water bucket in one of the kennels in his section.

Jacob takes Luigi and Jazzie back to their kennel after there time is up in the Beemer Park.

Tyler continues to fix the dog shelters.

There’s the H1 Gang coming back from the park. That’s why Elizabeth is in a crate. They aggravate her and she has to bark back. They all attack her crate and, obviously, she has to bark back. I don’t think she is aggressive at all.

Look at the H1 Gang head back inside, they get so excited.

On Monday we talked about Annie’s cancerous tumor and how it ruptured. We are keeping it clean. We clean it every time she goes to the park, because she lies in the sand. Lacie cleaned it on Wednesday. Annie is doing pretty well in H1. Charlie was still in Lindale and Annie was in his crate. She needs to be able to move around. The biggest indoor crate belongs to Charlie and it’s right next to Tuffy’s crate. Tuffy was watching Annie and flirting with her. He’s feeling well enough to flirt and he’s walking around.

Tuffy stops to flirt with Annie on his way to the park.

Bunny-honey gets along with Bernie and Pokey, even though she is still going to the park with Tuffy. There she is coming up the ramp. Tuffy was going to the park and I went to the back hall, because Bunny was on the deck. I called to Bunny and she went to the front door and out to the park with Tuffy.

Bunny knows it time to go to the park with Tuffy.

We are still trying to win feral Jimmy’s trust. Ronnie is sitting there and offering him a cookie. He still won’t come to Ronnie.

Jimmy still won't come to Ronnie to get a cookie.

There’s Jacob taking Ethel to the park.

There are a lot of pictures of caregiving. Everybody is doing well. Lacie helped us with caregiving. There she is with Wolfie.

We are still working on cleaning the doghouses and getting the hay out. The tops are off the shelters and we are trying to clean everything.

During caregiving we look for sores and cuts and doctor them. I’m not sure if we’ve talked about Big Foot’s cancer. He has a big mass in his chest. It’s not lung cancer. It’s outside his lungs. He’s not coughing, but he is getting super-skinny from the cancer. Dr. Shirey put him on Pred and it helps reduce the tumor. He wasn’t eating at all, but the Pred makes him feel better. It is a steroid and he is able to eat. There is no way that the doctors could operate on this cancer. He has a big mass. If the doctors opened him up, it would spread everywhere and he wouldn’t survive. There are Snickers and Big Foot.

Snickers and Big Foot say Hi!

Marie is enjoying herself and waiting for her kennelmate Cesar to recover from TPLO knee surgery. In the meantime, Thunder and Storm are taking care of Marie. Thunder, Storm and Marie are in an outside kennel.

Thunder and Storm are taking care of Marie while her kennel mate Cesar is in H2 recovering from his TPLO.

There are our older doggies, Beauty and Ranger. They are doing well and hanging in there.

There are more pictures of Tyler working in Terry’s kennel.

Tyler strips down the shelter and repairs what needs replacing.

He has some of the new boards up.

There’s blind Mr. Cesar in an ecollar in his kennel in H2. He can’t see, but he can hear me. He’s such a good boy.

There’s Tonto in his kennel in H2. We thought he was going to be adopted and we can’t get ahold of this family. He had a home visit scheduled for this Wednesday, which is today. David hasn’t been able to confirm the home visit. This family met Tonto at one of the shows. We still haven’t heard from these people but, bless his heart, we also have another family interested in Tonto. We want to make contact with the first family, before we move on.

During caregiving Lacie found a fatty cyst on Polly’s forehead. Lacie aspirated the cyst with a needle and she said it was just water. It’s nothing to worry about. It’s just a fatty cyst.

Polly is a good girl while Lacie tends to the cysts on her forehead.

​I heard from Dr. Lay about Charlie, our dog with Muscular Dystrophy. The doctor said that the infection is clearing up, but he wants to keep him one more day. When the doctor got Charlie and checked his blood work, he switched his antibiotic and this antibiotic is working. He should be able to come home soon. Today is Monday and Charlie is home, but I will talk about that on Monday’s report.

BILL: We finished April 6th’s report and we’ll be back soon with another report from Straydog.